Part I The working of a monetary economy1. Continuity and change in the transition from the classical to the neoclassical theory of normal prices Bertram Schefold2. Money, value and the division of labour Galiani and Marx Carlo Benetti3. “Hierarchy of causes” and theory of money in Ricardo and Keynes Ghislain Deleplace4. Financial stability and secure currency in a modern context Jan Kregel5. On Ricardo’s measuring rod again and what Sraffa made of it Christian Gehrke, Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori6. Sismondi as a critic of Ricardo: on rent, Corn Laws and methodology Pascal Bridel7. Roscher’s metaphors and his theory of crises Daniele Besomi and Harald Hagemann8. The monetary education of John Hicks Perry Mehrling9. Keynes’s theory of rationality, the “weight of arguments”, and Keynes as an investor in the financial markets Carlo Cristiano10. An input-output model for the Tableau Économique Alberto Giacomin

Part II Perspectives on macroeconomics in our century11. The Clearing Union as Keynes’s intellectual testament Mario Cedrini and Luca Fantacci12. Keynes as a planner and negotiator Toshiaki Hirai13. Keynes, the Labour Party and central bank independence Carlo Panico and Marco Piccioni14. ‘New Liberalism’ the Italian way: 1918-1947 Marco Dardi15. Learning from the past: two stories of successful state intervention in capitalism Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho and Julio López G.16. Engines of growth and paths of development in the Euro-area Annamaria Simonazzi17. The macroeconomic thought of the twentieth century: some reflections Elisabetta De Antoni18. History of economic thought and mainstream economics: a long-term analysis Marcella Corsi, Alessandro Roncaglia and Giulia Zacchia